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HTTP basic authentication support

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KVKalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Date
Nov 20, 2005, 08:38 UTC
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<87u0e71zpx.fsf@litku.valo.iki.fi>

I keep some personal files in a git repository. Now I want to have the repository in an HTTP server so that I can access it everywhere I go. Since I don't want to share the repository with the whole world, I would like to use the HTTP basic authentication, just to give a little protection. But it seems that git doesn't support it, yet. Or did I miss something?

I made a test repository which requires basic authentication. Login is foo and password bar.

git clone doesn't work:

$ git clone http://foo:bar@www.valo.iki.fi/kalle/tmp/auth.git/ auth defaulting to local storage area Cannot get remote repository information. Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there? $ 

But curl works:

$ curl http://foo:bar@www.valo.iki.fi/kalle/tmp/auth.git/info/refs 4cb663bd2b92d57c5e1ba0bfa9bf65c2e50ff46a refs/heads/master $ 

I'm using git updated an hour ago.
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Kalle Valo
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  1. Kalle ValoNov 20, 2005
  2. Support username and password inside URLKalle Valo, Nov 20, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2005
  4. Krzysztof HalasaNov 20, 2005
  5. Kalle ValoNov 23, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2005
  7. Johannes SchindelinNov 24, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2005

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